Grinding Corn with a Granary Tour on a Small Dairy!
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- Today we give you a tour of the granary! It was built in 2004 mainly by family and friends. We go through the construction processes and the engineering behind the building. Also we cover the ideas we had along the way to improve the building and help it fit our farm. We hope you found this video helpful or entertaining. Thank you for watching!
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This is a great channel. I grew up around Dodgeville, with lots of dairy farms around. I 've known some people like your Dad. He lives and breathes dairy farming, the wood cutting and all the other thousands of chores there is to do when you milk cows. I'm 66 years old now, and when I hear your Dad talking, I keep thinking that all he ever wanted to be is a dairy farmer. He has no interest in doing anything else, and he wouldn't want to do anything else. The heart and soul of Wisconsin.
I hope you guys continue to grow your channel. Very good content !!
Agreed 👍
Nothing beats the smell of fresh ground feed. On our hog and beef farm we would grind almost every day.We had 600 to 800 hogs to feed.Also 40 to 60 fat cattle on hand.Our John Deere 2510 was the the tractor on the grinder.It's lots of fun grinding on a 30 below zero day.The good old days. Thanks 😊.
Thanks for feeding us! Meet eaters appreciate your hard work!
You know you guys are one of the best farm videos I've ever seen
I love it. You dad has really took to this u- tube and he’s very knowledgeable man & very hard working too
All tour dad needs is a cup of coffee and someone to ask questions. Let the knowledge flow.
This is your coolest tractor yet, more videos!!
I want one of these bad, dually look so awesome.
We had dairy cows and baby beef on our farm. My dad built a granary which had separated sections for different crops - wheat, oats mainly. Dad built that back in the 50s. We do not own the farm anymore. My dad died of cancer and my brother, and I were just 10 and 12 so the farm got sold. I still drive by our old farm and our granary is still standing. I guess that means my dad did a real good job building that thing.
You inspired me to grind feed today now too!! I'll use my Farmall 560 just because. I like my grainery it is interesting in that some holes are patched up with old license plates (I think the oldest is dated 1926.) It is gravity flow though and I appreciate it's history. I believe it was built in the 1930's. You are an awesome family. Really smart to hold the walls together, I do the same with a chain and turnbuckle. If you wish to shell corn perhaps you can find a sheller. We used to have one and it was a pretty good option.
So when is the wedding date. Back in the 1960's we had a granary. As a kid i thought it was great fun to watch the grinding process.
Ahhhh wearing the many hats around the farm. Engineer the biggest. But millwright which includes welding , bearings, augers , greasing.... The equipment well maintained. My neighbor her late husband built a grain cleaner/ grainery , i was impressed. He used to have hogs and clean grain for neighbors. I liked working with my brother too, butted heads but it all worked out. 2 heads are better than one. Could use some motor driven augers to move grain if you had room inside. Or wooden slides to the middle of the grainery.
Your dad reminds me of mine. The way he thinks is like the farmers from the early 1900’s. He thinks of ways to improve without having to have the biggest and best out there. Love the videos and seeing your farm. Be safe and God Bless.
When you're dead was sitting there it reminded me of going to the feed mill when I was young sure miss those days
Always fun when George gets to thinkin,,,,
Love the small WI farms. My grandparents had one in Tomah that I used to fly out to and spend my entire summers at. Miss going out there.
Love the old style barns and Grainarys
Your dad's farm is so organized and well kept up and looks amazing. The farm I work on is a mess and needs a major clean up. Could we burrow your dad for a week to get it back on track
you guys remind me of my grandfather. You built what you want with what you got. He started a very successful farming operation this way. Keep up the good work doing it your way!
That 1086 sounds amazing
Dad's thought everything through, everything has its place .... You guys make hard work look easy... You know ? Smaller heards well taken care of by guys like you two. Is probably the way it was always intended to be . Thank you guys for providing a healthy product.
Your channel is one of the very few that show any sort of sanity. Thanks! Ron
One can tell your family came from Switzerland. Everything is well maintained and organized.👍
Nice granary. Don’t see em built that good!! 1066 looks good!!
Great video thanks for talking the time to make it.
Top notch content! Keep it coming
Great content gentleman, just found you and subbed! Great looking 66 series IH. We run a 684 and 1586 on our farm. And grandad's old Allis Chalmers, it's a 51 wd. Be safe .
Just found you guys, you have a beautiful farm...... it's exactly what I think of when I think family farm. It is so well kept, you can tell you guys take pride in your farm. Love the videos so far.
Great video again, your dad is a smart guy. I really enjoy watching and listening to him. Reminds me of a farmer next to us that would talk to me about the ways his dad farmed.
The granary on our dairy farm was actually a corn crib. Corn was our major crop and while some of it was chopped for silage, most of the ears were picked and stored on both sides of the structure.. There were several small grain bins on the ground level, and on the second floor. I remember dad storing his oats crop up there. We also cleaned our seed oats in the crib with a small fanning mill like yours. I like the design of your granary and is seems very practical for your needs. Thanks again for sharing one more item on your farm.
Very interesting content 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
My dad and uncle built a 3 bin granary in my barn. It's made out off 2×4s stacked on top of each other on the flat side. The barn will fall down around it before it will. Holds 2 semi loads.
Back in the 60's working with my uncles on their small dairy farm.
We ground feed with a belt driven hammer mill directly into the feed bin in the center
of the barn. Same as you, oats and cob corn.
Another great video! Great to see how the smaller family farms do things. Your father is always thinking ahead!! Keep up the great job with the videos. Have a great day and won't be long till corn harvest!!!
My 2nd comment today, I can’t tell you how much your simple but hard working farm just so much reminds me of how my father use to run things. You guys are truly inspiring to me. Thank you.
Awesome farm
I just love your operation it takes me home to my day’s on the farm keep up the great content and yes really like the way you built your grainry
Never bought a grinder. We had a local company (two guys) with a truck mounted grinder, they would come every two weeks and grind everything and add some molasses. Seeing your dad walking on top of the grain reminds me of always having to emptying my shoes out afterwards - lol. Great video and thanks.
Every time I watch your videos I learned something every time. We have a big feed mill here that's where we get our ground stuff at. Keep making them awesome videos I hope the cows are doing good the family's good take care and God bless
I’d love a video on mineral supplements. Thanks for all the info!!!
Great video...that is one quality building. New home builders could take lessons on great craftsmanship like this. Really enjoy your channel and videos!
wow, you just brought back a lot of memories to this Old Farm Boy LOL times were simpler now everything has to be complicated!! thanks for posting I enjoyed watching this, and sometimes when you do things they don't have to make sense to anyone else, only to you that's what matters, again I enjoyed the video and please keep posting,
At the University of Maine I ran the feed mill for a while, love the smell of fresh ground corn.We had bins out side, big electric motors ran the mill grinder,then we would put it in a cart, then by weight put in the mixer to another bin .
that old International seems a right good tractor.
To see a father and son work together is awesome
Really enjoy your channel
Love the videos, it's mostly flat in my area so it's really interesting to see how you work with the hills. Both my grandfathers had dairy cows, one sold out and concentrated on crops. The other sold out when he retired at over 70.
thanks loved it😃
I really enjoy your channel. Love hearing you talk about the stories behind what you do or have done.
Good evening from Limpopo South Africa. 👍👍
Grandpa's grainery was lined with lithographic plates from the newspaper. With a careful eye, you could still read some of it.
Great video,!!!
That was a great video all of them are, but I really enjoyed that. Thank you
Neat !
I remember well using a Gehl just like yours. Thanks for sharing 👍
Your Dad has so much for sight and passion
Enjoy your history, also think all of the notations on everything is a great idea. No trying to find a sheet of paper or wade through umpteen screens on the computer, especially one like mine that actually seems to get ornery and takes it's time to find something.
Very cool Guys! Makes me miss grinding corn! Nothing like it.
Had to ask why the duel on the right side of the 1066? At first I thought maybe for plowing but that'd be the other side. LOVED the grainery tour!!!
Nice, well-thought out, well-designed and well-built. I like it. Our granary is in our bank barn. When our barn was renovated in 1991, I had the Amish put in a door from the outside so I could use a hay/grain elevator to unload the oats from the wagon and put it on the granary ceiling. I cut holes in the granary ceiling so I could then allow the oats to drop down into the bins. Lots of different ways to do things.
Interesting video. I've lived my whole life in ranch country, so I've never seen a granary to be honest. When I feed out steers, I have to order totes of grain from across the state, because none is grown in my area. I started watching your videos for the old equipment, but I have enjoyed the little tours. I know nothing about dairies, and silage, and putting up grain. We just try to grow good grass, and good grass grows fat cattle.
We had a two story about 15 x 20 grainary most likely built around the late 1800s. I can only remember oats being stored in the second story I don’t ever remember any other grain being in there. Had wooden shouts down to the first floor and set up so you could bag up the oats. Had horse tack in a couple of the rooms. I think mainly the building was to support the work horses during that time. Got tore down late 70s to make room for a free stall barn. It was getting in pretty bad shape. Was a great playhouse for us kids at the time.
Love that 1066 I have one also that we Mow all of our hay with its also a black stripe we had a Greenery on our farm but it was in such ruins when we bought our farm we had to tear it down due to just neglect there is one not too far from our farm that I would love to move but it would be such an undertaking that I don't think it's possible we now are corn crib that was a drive-thru still has the oat Ben in the middle of the one side and has Provisions for you could stick an auger into it no longer used just kind of neat piece of History it has been converted into a antique shop now
We have a 1974 1066 and u just cant beat them
Enjoyed the video! I ground a batch of ear corn today for my steers with my flat belt JD hammer mill and my JD 60👍
Yes I have a friend that dries shelled corn in his bins. in the fall after drying his corn he will occasionally turn the fans on on days with low humidity but, he has found that he can by mistake on humid days just by running air add moisture to his corn but with that said. He says that you can't do that with rice it takes considerable actual water to raise the moisture of dried rice.
Dad bought a Gehl Grinder Mixer in early 60’s - Best Investment he ever made. That thing was Beast. Very similar granary we had back then. We stored our minerals and bean meal in it.
We had the same chopper mixer awesome video 🌽🚜👍
Reminds me of the granary on the farm my grandfather grew up on in Gardar, North Dakota. He was born in 1897. It was a diversified dairy, livestock and grain farm. He ended up as a veterinary pathologist at Cornell.
another interesting one , i have used a roller mill we had a small one years ago but this is another class to what we use to have , i love that Tractor she looks fantastic, but i do like IH
Very nice and very well kept international 👍👍👍
We had a dairy farm in Maine. my grandfather, father, and uncle milked around 85 to 100 cows. they sold out in 1964 after my grandfather died.
I used to do this same thing, with a 4020, and a new Holland grinder- mixer. We added soybeans too.
Hello looks great any significant to the Crest on the wall. That's cool a st bernard in case someone is lost in the hills. Have a great evening
Great video!! Very nice grainery. Good ariation system too. Like to see you use that tractor more often. We always had a 1466. John T.
Very cool
Nice grainery. You were talking about running out of corn crib room last fall. I've known guys who got in that situation and used hay wagons. Tie snow fence to the racks. You would be surprised how much they will hold
Thats a great video bro! You inspired me to build storage barn with aeration system to store grain. I cant build silo now . Can you show us more détails about storage system? ❤
You can use either 6 inch pvc or galvanized pipe for air ducts tied together with a manifold to aererate grain. Similar to the inbarn
Hay curing systems used in the day of loose hay storage. They put ducts made from lumber on the loft floors and large electric fans to force air through the loose hay in the barns! They would put up the hay in 8 foot lifts and use forced air to help cure it. That way they could cut, windrow, and carry to the barn on the same day so they didn't have to wait on nature to cure in the field. Eliminated moister from dew and rain.
Growing up we used a Bearcat grinder mixer to make hog feed. The main ingredient was milo not counting minerals and other. It made a lot of dust! It had a dust separator cyclone but still had to be very careful that the wind was blowing the right way. If it blew towards the house you’d be in trouble! I always enjoyed grinding feed.
Does you Saint Bernard like to eat ear corn? When I was a kid we had one that would eat it while we would grind feed. Love love this channel ❤️
The first farm I worked had a huge bank barn. There were two thrashing floors and two big granaries. The first granary had a bin over the cow stable manger so feed when down a chute into feed cart that we could shovel feed to the cows. The other bin had cow concentrate in it. The bin in the back had oats. The second granary you could walk from one flashing floor to the other if the granary wasn't full. One bin was over the sheep stable. You could hang 5 gallon buckets on the chute to fill them to feed the sheep. We usually try to keep the ceiling clear of hay until after oats harvest. Then we would stack straw on top of the granary.
You guys are awesome man.
Very Respectable
Well thought out building!!
Just a great little building
Great video
Awesomr video. Most farms around my area have feed delivered to them so its nice to see it done at your own farm.
Love the simple things. You don’t have to be Big to be Efficient 🤗
I am currently working on a 12x24 2 bin grainery going to try storing ear corn in one side and oats in the other I don't have a crib yet. great video
I remember ours Gehl grinder mixer we bought when I was about fourteen years old .
It was the only piece of equipment that we ever purchased NEW !
Our old grinder was one that had a eight or nine inch flat belt that was about thirty feet long doubled up . The grinder was anchor to the ground , we use the H International to run it . The belt had to have a half twist in it so that it would stay on both pulleys .Even than it was always a challenge to get it to stay on both pulleys and would have to back up the H just so , to have the correct tension on the belt as well.
Then the worst part of the process began , shoveling the grain into the grinder and going inside the shed and moving the ground feed away from the pile while it was still grinding . Always very happy when that was done for about a month ?
Would it be worth the trouble of installing some hardware cloth or chicken wire to keep the birds out if the granary?
I really enjoy watching feed mixing in those Gehls, pulling ear corn out of cribs, etc. Hard to believe all the stickers are still in such good, legible shape.
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👌 nice settup
Nice video!!!!!
I don't know how you remember the year everything was built. I have trouble remembering the year I got married
Barns are more memorable to a farmer! 😉
We had a grainery built over an old trench silo, we could back the wagon under there and load it without having to shovel, we then run the corn thru a belt driven hammer mill which was blow up in bin in the hay lift
Now I'm going to have to build me a granary like that
The granary is cool for sure, would be cool to see it rebuilt or new one with all the things ya would want to add to it, me personally would love to seen yall run a John Deere 55, 95 or 105 maybe a bigger vintage combine
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I had a gehl 100 and had to grind every 5 days for the milk cows. We don't grind feed anymore and sold it. Nathan.
What is the St.Bernards dog 🐕 name? Why only duals on one side of the tractor? Great video!
Very interesting video! Old farmer in Iowa.